I've noticed that block counts vary considerably depending on whether the team is home or away. The statistician, I believe, is an employee of the home team, and they tend to be a bit more generous toward the team that pays them. I could particularly see that happening in this match-up, since the Bucks would like their young bigman to look good statistically when compared with Darko for PR reasons. You can't really fudge points or rebounds, but on blocks, steals and turnovers there seems to be a lot of "room for interpretation" so to say.

I am not going to raise alarms just yet, because Flip and Joe are still experimenting with this team, but those big runs in really short periods of time are becoming a trend. Last year we might lose a lead over 5 or 6 minutes because we couldn't score, but so far this year teams are getting these points way too easily.